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Elastic brings its data management stack to Kubernetes with ECK
Elastic N.V. today announced the general availability of Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, or ECK, a version of its popular data management toolkit designed specially to run on the container orchestration framework. The Mountain View, California-based company is the developer of Elasticsearch, an open-source search engine enterprises use to make internal records more easily discoverable. Over ...
Iconiq leads $90M round for AI-powered field service startup Zinier
Enterprises with a lot of physical infrastructure, such as wireless carriers and utilities, have large field service teams that perform maintenance work year-round to keep things keep humming along smoothly. Zinier Inc. believes that it can make those field service teams more productive using artificial intelligence. The San Francisco startup this morning announced that it ...
Microsoft, IBM and others back Google in high-stakes Supreme Court copyright case
A broad group of tech firms including Microsoft Corp. has thrown its support behind Google LLC in its high-stake copyright dispute with Oracle Corp., which will go before the U.S. Supreme Court this year. The list includes a Who’s Who of major industry players. Axios reported today that Microsoft, IBM Corp., its subsidiary Red Hat, Etsy Inc., ...
Google acquires e-commerce startup Pointy for a reported $163M
Google LLC said today that it’s acquiring Pointy, a Dublin, Ireland-based startup that has carved out a unique niche for itself developing e-commerce hardware. The search giant didn’t disclose how much the deal is worth in the blog post announcing the transaction. But a source told TechCrunch that Google is paying 147 million pounds, or about ...
AWS seeks temporary block of Pentagon’s $10B JEDI contract to Microsoft
Amazon Web Services Inc. is requesting a court order to halt work temporarily on the U.S. Defense Department’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract, which was awarded to Microsoft Corp. last year after a hotly contested bidding process. The move came to light in a court filing released Monday. AWS, Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing ...
Amazon cloud CEO Andy Jassy shuffles ranks, and marketing head Ariel Kelman joins Oracle
Amazon Web Services Inc. is shuffling its executive ranks a bit as a former top marketing executive moves over to rival Oracle Corp. CNBC first reported today that Oracle has appointed Ariel Kelman (pictured), until recently the vice president of worldwide marketing at AWS, as chief marketing officer. Kelman is replacing Rupal Shah Hollenbeck, a former ...
Samsung acquires network services firm TeleWorld to advance 5G plans
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today said that it has acquired networking consultancy TeleWorld Solutions Inc. to boost its budding 5G business. Samsung is the world’s largest manufacturer of both consumer electronics and semiconductors, but those are not the only markets in which it operates. The company also has a well-established networking business that among other ...
Samsung’s new Galaxy XCover Pro is a rugged phone for frontline workers
While Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s flagship Galaxy S smartphone series follows a 12-month refresh cycle, the extended Galaxy family of devices is updated much more frequently. The latest update arrived on Sunday when the company debuted the Galaxy XCover Pro, a rugged phone aimed at the enterprise market. The device is designed for frontline workers ...
VCs bet $30B on enterprise startups in 2019, surpassing consumer tech funding
For the first time since at least 2015, venture capitalists wrote more checks to enterprise technology companies than their peers in the consumer market. That’s the main takeaway from year-end funding numbers PitchBook Data Inc. provided to Bloomberg for a report published this week. According to the market intelligence provider, enterprise startups raised a combined ...
IBM Research open-sources SysFlow to tackle cloud threats
IBM Corp.’s research division today announced the release of SysFlow, an open-source security toolkit for hunting breaches in cloud and container environments. SysFlow is designed to tackle a common problem in network protection. Modern security monitoring tools capture system activity with a high degree of granularity, often down to individual events such file changes. That’s ...